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What (who) is widget - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Widgets; Widget (disambiguation); The Widget; Widgit
widget
An example of something manufactured. In a 1950's movie starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day, widgets were advertised to the point that the entire country was anxiously awaiting the production and arrival of widgets. Only problem was, there were no widgets. It was just a concept. This word is often used when lay people and educators alike discuss business marketing strategy and marketing theory.
Let's say, for example, you want to make and market widgets,...
Let's say, for example, you want to make and market widgets,...
widget
(widgets)
You can refer to any small device as a widget when you do not know exactly what it is or how it works. (INFORMAL)
The secret is a little widget in the can.
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widget
['w?d??t]
¦ noun informal a small gadget or mechanical device.
?Computing a component of a user interface with a particular function.
Origin
1930s (orig. US): perh. an alt. of gadget.
Wikipedia
Widget
Widget may refer to:
- Widget (beer), a device placed in cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth
- Widget (economics), a placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product
- Software widget, a generic type of software application comprising portable code intended for one or more different software platforms
- Widget (GUI), an element of interaction in a graphical user interface, such as a button or a scroll bar
- Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications
- Web widget, an applet intended to be used within web pages
- E-9A Widget, a turboprop airliner
- Widget (Marvel Comics), a comic book character, an alternate version of Shadowcat from the Days of Future Past timeline
- Widget (TV series) or Widget the World Watcher, a 1990s animated television series
- Widget (video game), based on the TV series
- Widget, a character on the Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! cartoon
- Widget, a character on the Cyberchase cartoon
- Widget drive, a hard drive used only in the Apple Lisa computer system
- The Widget, nickname of New York World Journal Tribune
Examples of use of widget
1. "Widget" means a small bit of software, which can be downloaded and installed on user computers for whatever reason.
2. "We will also transform the timeline created by each person into a video movie, through a widget on an internet site" adds Feuerstein.
3. This happens in almost every bull market period – in 1''2, provident funds bought shares in any widget company trading on the stock exchange.
4. Graduation is a production line, and the heir to the throne but one was just one more academic widget stamped out in the Younger Hall of St Andrews University yesterday.
5. She said "dog–napping" of pedigree pets was on the rise and therefore "important". Forsyth‘s daughter, Debbie Matthews, had her two Yorkshire terriers – Gizmo and Widget – stolen from her parked BMW last Tuesday.